What if it’s too late to avoid some kind of ecological catastrophe? Maybe it’s not, and we should be doing everything we can so that it isn’t. Still, what if it is? Shouldn’t we also be talking about that? What kind of a future do we want to create for ourselves on such a horizon? What might it mean to collapse well?

Andrea Jain, professor of religious studies at Indiana University, presents “Swallowing the Future: Cynicism, Nostalgia, and Other Capitalist Techniques for Going Nowhere,” the second lecture in a series of free public lectures by internationally renowned scholars and public intellectuals made possible by the Henry Luce Foundation

Thursday, October 10th at 4:30pm

Clapp Hall, Room 108

2080 Adelbert Rd. Cleveland, OH 44106

Free to the Public, no registration required

Andrea Jain is editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

Find her books here: Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture and Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality

Read more about the lecture series and the Finite Futures project

Andrea R. Jain is professor of religious studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis, editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and author of Selling Yoga: From Counterculture to Pop Culture and Peace Love Yoga: The Politics of Global Spirituality. Her work evaluates the uniquely disastrous social values and practices of late capitalism and their expressions in pop culture, most recently centering questions about normalized violence against animals and its co-constitution with ableism, sexism, and racism.